When my Sony eReader made its way into my hands back in December, I thought nothing could make me love it more. Finally, I had a way to have hundreds of books always at my fingertips, in my purse, on my nightstand, in my car – anywhere, any time.
Over the months I’ve been using it, a few things have interfered with my deep love for this gadget. First, the complete clusterf*(& that is the Sony Reader software. What a piss of complete crap. And second, the limitations of native Adobe PDF files in the reader. The Sony will not enlarge native PDF’s to a size that is comfortable for me to read.
The PDF problem I resolved by converting my ebooks to RTF before importing them. Thanks to the Adobe Batch converter, it’s a pretty quick and painless process. But that clunky, difficult to navigate Reader software – ouch. Every time I want to add books to the reader I cringe, knowing I had to fire up that software. And this weekend when I decided I wanted to move all my “adult” books onto the memory card, so I could pop it out and not worry when my teenage son was using my reader for his Star Trek books, I was driven to drink.
And to Google. Where I found libprs500.
Here is the software I’ve been looking for!
Still in development, so there’s a few kinks, but it comes so much closer to what I want my reader software to do. The biggest is letting me rename the files, and tag them so all the novellas, or all the books from Samhain, are easy to find at one click.
The geek in me is very, very happy.
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Funny how we geeks love our gadgets. I am a gadget lover. I got my eBookWise today and have been playing with it.
Going to RT? Coming to the Southern Lights conference next month?
libprs500 is the greatest. It’s wonderful for converting many formats, but works best with LIT files IMO.
PDF’s suck & are the last format that should be used for eBooks. At least the way publishers use them now. It’s not Sony’s fault (or Bookeen’s, or any other 6″ device mfg) that a PDF with pages set to letter size (which is usually the case) look so bad on a screen less than half that size. They are generally readable in landscape mode though.
Oh, also if you need help with libprs500 at all the developer hangs out on Mobile Read & many folks there are quite well versed with the program.
I found an online converter http://2epub.com
Works quite well.